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He is not happy about the “crime of 1873” where senator john sherman demonetizes silver and puts the united states on the road to the gold standard which occurs in 1879

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The 19th century silver wars culminate with william jennings bryan’s “cross of gold” speech at the 1896 democratic convention

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One of silber’s heroes is nevada senator key pitman who leads the silver bloc in the senate which counted fourteen senators among the seven mining states

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Soon the mint runs out of silver and the price explodes

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Silber spends most of the book in excruciating detail describing the texas hunt brothers corner on the silver market in 1980

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To me he is way too sympathetic to the hunt brothers

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Silbers earlier book when washington closed down wall street was a pageturner in which silber unfolded the story of how a potentially mortal threat to the u

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There are a few heroes and far too many villains including presidents of the united states who manipulated the price of silver for political advantage at one point betraying our thenally china and increasing its vulnerability to a japanese invasion in the mid1930s